Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex /

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A documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale. This book contains a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that directly inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Heffernan, Thomas Farel, 1933-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Middletown, CT : [New York] : Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Columbia University Press, [1981]
Édition:[First edition.]
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Chase, Owen.
Chase, Owen
Melville, Herman. > Moby Dick.
Essex (Whaleship)
Survival.
Whalers (Persons) > United States > Biography.
Habiletés de survie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
TRAVEL > Cruises.
Survival
Whalers (Persons)
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo

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